Tbird has a wonderful feature known as the Unified Folder view. For IMAP, no dice… Oh, man… Can I fix it? The Global Inbox feature apparently only works for POP3 accounts. If you go into the new IMAP Gmail account settings, you will NOT find the option to make the account use the Global Inbox – because you can’t! You’ll notice that your Gmail account has its own Inbox, Junk, and so on. The Global Inbox allows you to have like 200 e-mail accounts, but all the mail from all those accounts goes into the same Inbox, Drafts, Sent, etc. This is where you might freak out – IF you are using Thunderbird’s Global Inbox feature. If you want to connect your Address Book and Calendar, you can. Go ahead and get ‘er done.Īt that point, you should see a screen like so: You’ll be asked to log in to Google/Gmail via a popup window. Since Thunderbird will automatically choose to set up an IMAP account for you (instead of POP3), you don’t have to worry about any advanced settings. Next, in the same pulldown menu, click Add Mail Account.Įnter your name, Gmail address, and password for your Gmail account. That will remove your Gmail POP3 mail account. Then, in the Account Actions pulldown menu below it, choose Remove Account: Scroll down in the left-hand column and find your Gmail account. Suffice it to say that they’re different, and they each have their strengths and weaknesses.Ĭlick the hamburger button, then choose Account Settings: I won’t go into a long and dramatic explanation of the differences between POP3 and IMAP. Convert your POP3 Gmail setup to IMAP in Thunderbird Nevertheless, there’s not much you can do about it. This is not happening for your safety and security. So, sure – OAuth 2.0 is all whiz-bang secure, but don’t kid yourself. I mean, this is the company that gave you a 1GB storage space with your brand new e-mail account years ago – as long as you agreed that they get to read all your mail. Honestly? Because Google wants to spy on you better.
Your only option is to switch over from POP3 to IMAP in Thunderbird. This time, there isn’t an option to make it work anyway with Gmail. Now, Gmail will effectively shut off POP3 completely for Thunderbird users by May 30, 2022. So, you had to go through a convoluted process on Google to enable “less secure” Tbird to play nicely with POP3 for Gmail.
Google insisted that POP3 mail accounts were, “not secure enough”.
You may remember a similar thing happening not long ago. If you use Thunderbird to download e-mails from your Gmail account, it may stop working soon.
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